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on the mend
Thank goodness for Judi, who finally dragged me away from the continuing sagas of impending doom and disappearing wealth in America yesterday long enough to play a couple of hours online against the Bots. Her surgery went well and she’s recovering nicely; told me how much she appreciates all the good wishes, speedy-recovery vibes, calls, [...]
Published by stacy on October 31st, 2008 tagged Bridge | 2 Comments »
location, location, location
Patty Chiszar wrote:
When I lived in Clearwater we made a deal with Barnes and [N]oble across the street from our bridge club. Once a week, 8 of our bridge players spent two hours playing bridge in the cafe. We recruited dozens of new players just because they were intrigued with the game we were playing. [...]
Published by stacy on October 29th, 2008 tagged Bridge | 5 Comments »
funny you should ask
In response to my overlong post about recruiting young bridge players, Dave asked:
What about online? When (mostly young) people saw poker on TV and wanted to try it, they went to their computers and just started to play. They didn’t know what they were doing at first, but eventually they learned. They read message boards, [...]
Published by stacy on October 24th, 2008 tagged Bridge | 1 Comment »
back to work
My partner is amazing: she’s totally over the jet lag and frenzy from Beijing. When she’s not running around doing pre-surgical workups (they’re going to repair her elbow on Friday), Judi props her broken wing up on a pile of pillows and ices it at regular intervals and refuses to let a little thing like [...]
Published by stacy on October 23rd, 2008 tagged Bridge | 6 Comments »
this just in
I guess we’re on to something. This evening I found Mind Games: A Bridge to Somewhere.
For harness racing, discovering parallel problems in other thinking games is of little consolation. Being in the same leaking boat does not get us to the Promised Land. Ignoring these trends is absurd. Whining is not progress. Ceasing efforts to [...]